Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in prison by a court.

She was found guilty of provoking dissent, and violating COVID rules under a disasters law. Suu Kyi faced 11 charges, and most of them combined can jail her for life. She has denied all charges which have also been condemned by the World.

Suu Kyi remains under house arrest since February’s coup when the military called the elections rigged, and did not accept the results. It isn’t clear whether she would actually be moved to a prison, or would serve her sentence under house arrest.

Rights group Amnesty International has called the charges “bogus,” and how they expose the military’s intentions. Suu Kyi is now set to appear before a court on December 14 to face charges of having “illegal” walkie-talkies.

Suu Kyi has already faced a 15-year detention at the hands of the country’s military in the past. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, became a controversial figure over her handling of the Rohingya crisis. She defended her country against genocide accusations, which did not go well with the World that had ample evidence of it.

Her government was toppled by the military in February after it called the latest elections a fraud. Myanmar’s Election Commission however, has said that there weren’t any discrepancies found in the results.

World leaders are condemning Suu Kyi’s sentencing, and are urging Myanmar to stop politically motivated cases. Her lawyer was stopped from talking to journalists about the proceedings which underwent in a closed court.